Then too....when Tombstone was popping...the civil war had very recently concluded and maybe those kinds of popguns were just cheap war surplus? Still deadly today...the 1860 model Colt was being or had been, in Federal service, replaced by the 1872 and 1873 model SAA, Colts, cartridge pistols (Faster reloading.) The nerdowells, pioneers, tinpanners and pond scum.....carried whatever they could buy CHEAP, or steal.
I read that in that era, the Remington, "New Army" pistol retailed for $8.00. Which ⁸was EXPENSIVE back then. Gotta say...that with a properly loaded 1860...a man... thus armed was a walking death dealer. It he knew how to hit a damned thing with it.
The Colts model 1973, SAA.... made other pistols obsolete. The more ridged frame. The rifled barrel and the ability to accept self contained cartridges...KING OF THE HILL.
I don't think the two gun leather or even the single pistol rigs so popularized by hollyweird were common back then. You see pics of old timers proudly displaying their popguns....with the guns stuck into their drawers...held by their belts. Cowboys were lo paid and a dime a dozen, then. A Winchester lever rifle and a SAA..... would have gobbled up a years wages, for a cowboy.
God created man but Sam Colt made them all equal.
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Our forefathers would have already been shooting...by now.
"Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." "Violence of action means the unrestricted use of speed,strength, surprise and aggression to achieve total dominance against your enemy...any fighting technique is useless unless you totally commit to violence of action."
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